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Are you tired of your Sims, or are you trying to get a fancy ghost and tombstone? There's more ways than you may realize to end your Sims' virtual lives, especially if you have an expansion.

Steps

Method1

Killing Sims in the Basic Game

1

Kill it with fire. Buy the cheapest stove or grill and have a Sim with low cooking skill try to cook with it. Alternatively, place flammable objects near a fireplace, and have the Sim stoke the fireplace repeatedly. Sims on fire for one game hour die and become red ghosts.

Some Sims have hidden traits that allow them to survive three hours on fire. Firefighters cannot be killed by fire.

The expansions add many, many other ways to start fires. These are not listed below, since they don't give any unique results.

2

Cause an electrical accident. Have a Sim with low Handiness attempt to repair or upgrade an electric device several times. The first accident will "singe" the Sim, and the second will kill him if the singed moodlet is still active. Increase the odds by standing in a puddle, and trying to repair expensive, complex devices. Your Sim's ghost will be yellow.

A Sim with the Handy trait cannot die this way. A Sim with high handiness is unlikely to die this way.

The Sim needs at least 1 Handiness to have the option to tinker.

3

Starve the Sim. Remove fridges, oven, stove and phone so that your Sim has no way of getting food. You could also wall your Sim up in a room. After about 48 game hours, the Sim will die and turn into a purple ghost.

4

Send them to drown. Pools were infamous in earlier Sims games, since the Sims wouldn't climb out if you removed the ladder. They've become smarter in Sims 3, so you'll need to build a wall around the pool edge instead. Drowned Sims leave behind a blue ghost.

Method2

Killing Sims with Expansion and Store Content

1

Die from the World Adventures mummy's curse. With World Adventures installed, explore the Al Simhara tombs and look inside sarcophagi to awaken mummies. Let the mummy catch your Sim, and there's a chance that it will curse you (adding a moodlet). It will take two whole game weeks for your Sim to die, but you get a cool white ghost haunted by a black cloud.

Sims with good martial arts skills can fight the mummy off, avoiding the curse.

There are several ways to end the curse, but most are hard to do by accident. Avoid meditation, time travel to the past, unicorn blessings, snake kissing, and sleeping in sarcophagi.

2

Hope for a meteor in the Ambitions or Seasons expansions. There's only a tiny chance of this happening, but you can increase the odds by using a telescope outdoors.[1] If you hear ominous music and see a shadow, rush the Sim with a death wish to that spot. The ghosts of meteor victims are orange like fire victims, but also smolder with black sparks.

If you also have the Seasons expansion and control an alien, the alien can summon meteors.

Meteors never fall on children, ghosts, or aliens, but those Sims can run toward the meteor impact site to die.

3

Transform into a thirsty vampire in Sims 3 Supernatural or Late Night. Surprisingly, vampires in the Sims 3 can survive sunlight. The only special death they get is their version of starvation, death by Thirstiness. After about two days without Plasma, the vampire will turn into a red ghost with a beating red heart, and get a bat-shaped tombstone.

To become a vampire, look for NPC Sims with neck tattoos and bright eyes. (You'll get a "Hunted" moodlet when one is nearby.) Become acquaintances with the vampire and choose "Ask to Turn" while interacting.

4

Install University Life to rant about death with the megaphone. Each rant has a chance of attracting the Grim Reaper. The first time gets you a warning, shown by a moodlet. Keep ranting about death while the moodlet is active, and the Reaper won't be gentle next time.

5

Crush the Sim in a collapsible bed at the University. This is another easy death in the University Life expansion. Open the bed, put the Sim on it, and close it. Squish.

This might take a couple tries.

6

Shake a vending machine at the University. Shake the vending machine repeatedly. Each time you shake it, there's a chance it will fall and crush your Sim. All worth it for the free soda.

7

Fail as a magician in Showtime. Send your Sim on the Magician career, and entertain the crowds with your suicide. Actually, the Box of Danger is surprisingly safe, but the Buried Alive and Watery Escape tricks have a small chance at death.

Skilled magicians and lucky Sims may try the trick hundreds of times without dying. Since these are hidden traits, it's hard to predict how likely a Sim is to die this way.

8

Get the Supernatural expansion and turn yourself to gold. This is the only death that leaves behind a new piece of furniture: a golden statue of your Sim! Fulfill enough wishes to cash in for the Philosopher's Stone lifetime reward, then transmute everything you can find into gold. Each touch includes a small chance of killing yourself.

9

Chow down on Supernatural jelly beans. Add a Magic Jelly Bean Bush to your house and keep using it. There's a 5% chance your Sim will be set on fire or electrocuted, plus a 1% chance of a special jellybean death. This death leaves a purple ghost with blue hair.

10

Haunt other players as a Supernatural witch. Each time a witch casts a haunting curse on another player, there's a chance it backfires and kills them. This can only happen once your witch reaches a certain level of power, so keep on practicing that spellcasting.

11

Die in the Island Paradise expansion. You'd think an island paradise would be death-free, but you'd be wrong. Sims can drown or starve while scuba driving, and even get killed by a shark if they don't find a place to hide. Mermaids can die by spending too much time on land, but a nearby Sim might splash water on the mermaid to save her life.

12

Die in the Future. The Into the Future expansion introduces two additional ways to die. Flying a jetpack too long comes with a high chance of crash, which may or may not kill the Sim. Using a time machine can cause the Time Paradox Sickness moodlet, leading to Do I Even Exist? and Blinking Out of Existence. Finally, the Sim can disappear completely... sometimes along with their descendants!

13

Make the Grim Reaper your neighbor. This form of death requires the "Door of Life and Death" from the Sims store. Knock on it to greet Death and challenge him to a guitar contest. Fail, and meet the deadly Pit Monster![2]

14

Abuse the Cow Plant. One of the weirdest ways to die involves the Cow Plant from the Sims Store. Scold the plant and let it sit there without food for a few days. Eventually, it will offer your Sim a slice of cake, then eat you if you try to take it.

Method3

Cheats

1

Enable testing cheats. Open the cheat console with Control + ⇧ Shift + C. Type in testingcheatsenabled true to enable the options below.

Careful! These cheats can cause broken save files and crashes, especially if you use them on NPCs. Disable them as soon as you're done with testingcheatsenabled false.

2

Age the Sim. Hold down ⇧ Shift and click the Sim. Select "Trigger Age Transition" to advance to the next age category. Repeat until the Sim is an elder, then trigger it one more time to make them die of old age.

3

Change the hunger bar. With these cheats enabled, moodlet bars can be altered by clicking and dragging. Drag the hunger bar until the Sim starves.

4

Delete the Sim. This will skip all the in-game deaths and just remove the Sim, which can be handy if the Sim is permanently stuck in a bug. Shift-click the Sim and select "Delete."

This is especially likely to damage your save file if you try it on an NPC.

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